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SAMUEL AMSTER, OF AMSTER, KENTUCKY.

To all whom t 'may concern:

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1909.

Application led January 8, 1909. Serial No. 471,297.

l ployed, and when the head is driven into po- Be it known that I, SAMUEL AMSTER, a l sition the tongue 7 will enter the said handle citizen of the United States, residing in Amster, in the county of Madison and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful improvement inAXes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an ax, and the object or" the invention is to provide for the easyT removal of the handle.

It often occurs that ahandle will break and in such cases it is customary to burn out the part remaining in the aX head, but such burning process not only requires considerable time but is also injurious to the temper of the aX. l

My invention consists in an ax formed in two sections locking together, one of said sections carrying the blade and beingV provided wth a suitable handle receiving socket, and the other section forming a head, interlocking with the blade section and provided with a Wedge which enters the handle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, the handle being broken away. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, the blade and wedge being shown in side elevation. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal section through the aX, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of the interlocking sections, the head section being inverted.

To distinguish the two sections in which the ax is formed they will be referred to as the blade l and the head 2. The blade seetion is provided with the usual handle receiving socket 3 which opens upwardly, and upon the upper face of said section and upon opposite sides of the said socket are formed parallel dove-tail grooves 4 which terminate short of the rear end of the aX, as most clearly shown in Fig. 4. The head section 2 is solid and upon its under face it is provided with two parallel keys 5 which interlock with the grooves 4. Between these keys and parallel thereto is a rib 6 from which depends a wedge-shaped tongue 7, the said tongue being wedge-shaped both in cross section and lengthwise, decreasing in heighth from the front end of the aX to a point adjacent the inner end of the rib, and then abruptly terminating in a vertical sharpened edge. The usual handle 8 is emand will serve to both lock the handle rmly in its socket, and also aids in locking the two sections together, and owing to the fact that the grooves are dove-tailed the head can be removed only by driving it forwardly, thus removing the wedgeshaped tongue from the handle. W'hen the head is so removed the handle or if broken the part remaining secured to the aX can be readily withdrawn.

What I claim is l. An aX formed in two interlocking sections, one of said sections having a handle socket, and the other section carrying a tongue entering said socket and engaging the handle.

2. An aX formed of two interlocking sections, a handle socket being formed in one of said sections, and a tongue wedge-shaped in cross section and lengthwise, said tongue extending in the said socket when the two sections are locked together.

3. An ax consisting of a blade and handle socket section and a head section, a wedgeshaped tongue carried by the inner face of the head section, the socket of the other section receiving said tongue, one of said sections having dove-tail grooves formed parallel to the handle socket, and the other section having keys engaging said grooves.

4. An aX consisting of a blade section having a handle socket formed therein, said socket opening longitudinally through the upper vface of said section, dovetailed grooves formed on said section parallel with the handle socket, a head section, keys carried by said head section and engaging said grooves, and a wedge-shaped tongue carried by said head section and depending between` said keys.

5. An aX consisting of a blade section having a handle socket formed therein, a head section interlocking with said blade section and closing the handle socket, and means carried by said head section for engaging an ax handle, said Vmeans extending into said socket when the sections are interlocked.

6. An aX consistin of a blade section having a handle socket ormed therein, said section having grooves formed therein parallel to said socket7 the grooves extending from l angles to the head section, the said tongue one end of the aX to a point adjacent the engaging and entering an aX handle When, l0 other end, a head section, keys fomed upon the head is driven in position.

said section, said keys en agn t e rooves,

a rib formed between aiid pagrallelgto said Y SAMUEL AMSTER' keys, and a Wedge-shaped tongue extending Witnesses:`

from said rib, and terminating Short of the WILLIAM H. SIMPSON,

rib with a straight cutting edge at right L. W. MIN'IER. 

